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  • "It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

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    Wicks, James Anthony
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    This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
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    dialectical relationship between society and culture -- since our economic practices of consumer culture have

  • Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

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    Package, Christina
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    In an effort to supplement the recently completed NOAA fishing community profiles, three coastal Oregon communities were chosen as sites for a collaborative project designed to produce long-form profiles. In order to provide a representation of the coast Newport, Port Orford, and Garibali, Oregon were included based on community size,...
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    only systematic compilation of information available about social, economic, and fishery conditions

  • Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

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    McGonagall, Odhran Mason
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    This thesis explores the relationships that income and housing space limitations have with regard to food security in full-time recreational vehicle (RV) households. This research used a scaled survey tool and a subset questionnaire to gather information on RV dwellers' housing and kitchen spaces along with participants' food shopping, storage,...
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    and culture in the U.S. along with common and current socio-cultural and economic situations that

  • Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

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    Schmitt, Edwin Anton
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    This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
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    closely examined: agriculture and tourism. The socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-ecological

  • Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

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    Ruder, Bonnie J.
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    In Uganda, there are an estimated 200,000 women suffering from obstetric fistula, with 1,900 new cases expected annually. These figures, combined with a persistently high maternal mortality rate, have led to an international discourse that claims the solution to improving maternal health outcomes is facility-based delivery with a skilled birth...
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    violence in the lives of rural, poor women. Results demonstrate how political-economic and cultural

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

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    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
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    community well-being. Impacts were organized into five categories (environmental, economic, aesthetic

  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

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    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    : Indicators of Economic Status and Other Variables. 128

  • "A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

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    Watson, Annaliese
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    Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...
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    2 Foreign Policy bases its listing on a composite score of 10 criteria, including social, economic

  • Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

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    Galipeau, Brendan A.
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    This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
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    specific economic strategies. Next, interview results are analyzed to show how agricultural

  • What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

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    Stanton, Michael
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    This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
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    are the Environmental, Economic, and Social Barriers To Achieving Agricultural Sustainability in The